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Archaeologists found Greek and Roman cooking pots in one Roman city were made the same way, revealing shared daily life.

Two life-size funerary figures have been found in Pompeii that reveal the power, status, and public role of a Roman woman.

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Scientists identified coprostanol and carvacrol in a Roman vial, proving that "filth" was a key ingredient in ancient cures.

In this Central Asian country with a complicated, engrossing and often violent history, change is constant – and now it’s on ...

Over 50 people gathered at the Hatcher Graduate Library Friday an event about a large hematite and red jasper amulets known ...

The lessons of Va’era, the Spies, Solomon’s fall, and modern tyranny remind us that the heart does not turn away all at once; it turns one compromise at a time. Whether it is Pharaoh’s ego, the spies’ ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

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Vivid scenes of battlefield decapitations and female prisoners dragged off by their hair, carved into the 1,840-year-old marble Column of Marcus Aurelius towering over central Rome, are being brought ...